10 reasons why I chose Research as a career

(1) I hate sleeping.
(2) I have already enjoyed my life in childhood.
(3) I cannot live without tension.
(4) I wanted to have disturbed family life.
(5) I believed in Gita “Karm karo, fal ki icha mat karo”.
(6) I wanted to take revenge on myself.
(7) I want to miss my LOVE.
(8) I wanted social boycott.
(9) I wanted to break up with my friends.
(10) I love to work on Sundays and Holidays.

Disclaimer: Not applicable to all

Before joining PhD:
· I want to win the Nobel Prize.
· I want to win the Turing Award.

First year of PhD:d
· I want to finish PhD in two years.
· I want to publish papers only in top tier conferences.
· I want to make ground-breaking research.
· I want to win the best PhD Thesis award.

Second year of PhD:
· I want to finish PhD in 5 years.
· I want a problem.
· Shall I change my advisor?

Third year of PhD:
· I want a paper; I don’t care which conference.
· Shall I change my topic?
· I want to be known as Dr bhOndOO…

Fourth year of PhD:
· I want to finish PhD!
· My industry-friends have two children by now. When will I get married?

Fifth year of PhD:
· Why did I come here?
· Why did I choose this advisor?
· Why did I choose this topic?

Sixth year of PhD:
· Someone give me a degree!
· I want to leave this place — for ever.
· Let me leave.

Seventh year of PhD:
· People call me uncle.
· She waited and finally married someone else.I don’t want any degree. I just want to live peacefully.